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I agree with this. Germany's advantage is a much slower burn. Gaul is like Russia on hills, fast expansion with production and land grab.

I'm surprised everyone's saying Hansa, I would've said Oppidum for the reasons stated. At the very least it would be a tie. The Hansa is too dependent on commercial hubs. You also have to put those up and dams and aqueducts, it's a lot of investment. Oppidums you get the benefit straight away...

I'll start a game with Gaul on Highlands map tomorrow and include Korea and go for Science victory. :mischief:

Gaul looks really, really good imo. I can't wait to play it.

If anyone follows figure skating, this is reminding me of when Yuna Kim lost to Adelina Sotnikova at the Olympics. See Yuna Kim 2014 gold medal controvery. lol

I thought this thread was just generally new leaders/civs we wanted, not just for NFP.

New Leader: Louis I (Alternate leader for Poland and Hungary) Leader Ability: King whose shores were washed by three seas (+50% production towards Light and Heavy Cavalry Units. No -5 diplomatic favour penalty for owning foreign capitals. Siege units gain +5 combat strength when attack foreign...

I like the board game feeling also. I think AI relationships suck though.

I need a shirtless and muscular Gaul. :mischief:

I'm confused by all of this. Can someone explain in simple English? Also, in my current game as Poland I went from Dark Age - Heroic Age - Dark Age - and now about to enter into Heroic Age. Is the game mode like this essentially? If so, I'm already playing this mode as Poland haha.

When the change was brought in, I thought this would be horrible for domination victories or any aggressive play. But now I've played with a few games where I was on a lot of negative influence, it actually doesn't matter. In fact, if you do get any influence points say from emergencies, you can...

Burma or death. :mischief:

So I was playing as Matthias Corvinus (8 player, standard map), had captured 7 capitals, completely eliminated 3 civs. My last conquest was Kupe who was also a different religion. On the religious victory map I had converted only 4 civs including myself. When I captured his capital, it came up...

New Civ Civ: San Marino Civ Ability: First Constitution (extra Diplomatic policy card in all levels of government, extra envoy at start of each era) Leader: Saint Marinus Leader Ability: Religious Asylum (cannot found new cities, however capital city doubles the land area than normal, city...

So is Vietnam a done deal or does Burma have a chance to get in? Finland should be a new civ also. They could have adjacency bonses for woods and bonuses for leaving old growth forests in tact.